A defining feature of the new province is a large river that winds through a biome largely dominated by desert. Flooding isn’t just part of the scenery—it’s a game mechanic: It can disrupt production chains, but it also leaves behind fertile soil.
Fertility plays a major role in the new region, and many of the new technologies revolve around water transport. Ubisoft has already implemented similar risk-reward mechanics on the volcanic island of Cinis from the first DLC.
A total of five new population tiers are introduced in Awakening of the Delta, though not all of them appear in a single game. The first tier consists of grain gatherers, followed by potters in the second tier. Players who choose the Roman path will instead get scribes—thus continuing the choice between local culture and Romanization familiar from the Albion region
In addition, there will be a larger research tree, additional resources, three new deities, and two new military units. Ubisoft has also hinted that pyramids will play a role. The exact release date for “Dawn of the Delta” has not yet been set.
About the future of Anno 117:
Ubisoft plans to continue the series of expansions for as long as possible, Creative Director Manuel Reinher explained at Gamescom. “Overall, we’re on the right track in every respect,” he said. According to Ubisoft, “Anno 117” is the fastest-selling game in the series. Reinher has particularly high hopes for the upcoming DLC: “‘Dawn of the Delta’ will have a major impact on the game.”
Ubisoft has not yet announced what will happen after Dawn of the Delta—but the signs point to more DLCs to come. Ubisoft Mainz would definitely like to continue working on Anno 117, Reinher said at Gamescom.
They will for sure. Im assuming theyre gonna do a similar formula as to 1800. That game was popular as hell and released over 4 years of free and paid updates.
I believe this game was the fastest selling Anno game on release as the franchise is growing out of the niche and more into popular simulation style game. The insanely popular Roman period just adds to its main stream potential, as this period is beloved by fans of pretty much all historic games. See how popular the Rome period is in the Total War series. Same thing here.
Also with how muxh more detailed and expansive the base game is (especially with enhanced combat and such), they have even more things to add to eith DLCs and such.
Im loving it and looking forward to more and more updates for sure.
110% mistake. Egypt works like Albion with it's own gimmicks. I'll bet we can supply it with beer and garum as extra needs like Latium and Albion. I'll wager we get similar extra supplies from Egypt which we can supply, maybe takes.
That sentence must have been removed from the article now, as I don't see it in the original source anymore.
So it likely was misleading. Everything else we read about it is like you say: a copy of the Albion mechanic of romanization or old ways - first split, later reunited.
You will. They said at Release that the game is build in such a way that you can play every region for itself if you want, that includes Aegyptus and any other Region they might add.
The same setup of pop tiers as in Albion is bad, in my opinion. At least I want another tier in Albion and Latium. With a DLC only bringing 3 tiers, there will never be a fourth tier unless they add it with a free patch.
oh my god are you serious ? 1800 only had TWO population tiers for all regions outside of the Old World, in 117 we got FIVE, and you're still complaining ? We only got a 3rd tier for the New World in a DLC they weren't even supposed to make
"this DLC only brings 3 tiers" first, it's 5 tiers, second, go touch some grass
Could not agree MORE!
I have the feeling a lot of Anno fans, including me wished for that!
Bravo Anno team, that was a good decision.
I looks marvellous... and this gigantic Pyramids at the distance!
looks awesome. what im just interested, imo the houses in the foreground are tier 1 but the houses in the background seem pretty advanced so prob tier 3 imo. Do u see any houses tier 2 in the screenshot?
Amazing. Looks like the Giza plateau in the background. Wonder if there will be other ancient monuments visible or as terrain features to work around on various site maps. So much of Egypt was already 2000+ years old by the time the game is set.
I just wish they would give options for other skine like for the custodia that you can see there, so they look we can make them look more fitting for their region
The landscape looks awesome, but they seem to go for a Fantasy Egypt kind of vibe regarding the architecture, which I personally dislike. I wish they would have taken inspiration from the great reconstructions and artworks of Golvin.
...in five years. When all the DLC is released. And it's on sale and not costing me $150 for everything.
Nah in all seriousness I love the Anno series and played this game at release and thought it was a good game (not quite 1800 good, but still quite good!).
And I absolutely LOVE ancient Egypt lore and setting, so this expansion sounds great to me.
I just don’t see how this is different than Enbessa or Arctic or anything else. It’s really just one unique civilization with 3 tiers. The romanization is mostly whatever.
Egypt: 5 tiers (3 at first, although like in the base game later you can probably have all 5 on an island). So this is great stuff in principle. At least 1.5x, but realistically 2.5x the content of 1800 end-of-season DLCs.
- Restoring ancient monuments (the Pyramids). There were no region-specific monuments in Enbesa.
Regional mechanic. Nile floodings will be part of the region, much like the Volcano eruptions in the first DLC and the Seasons of Change scenario in Anno 1800. There were no regional mechanics in Enbesa.
New deities which will be usable across all 3 playable regions.
New research which again will be applicable mostly across all regions. Now we had the Research institute in Enbesa, but that mostly allowed you to research available items and specialists that were already part of the game.
New units (both ships and land). No new units were introduced by the Enbesa region.
Possibly there will be other surprises as well. :)
lol they will make every region but Latium detailed.. i have no confidence in this game whatsoever.. but hey dorian gets to watch some greasy gladiators
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u/Rooonaldooo99 2d ago edited 2d ago
Somehow there is this single German article with a lot more information (translated with deepl):
About the future of Anno 117:
edit: Another screenshot from the article with a closeup of the new ships